Log4Net in a Windows Service

using Log4Net starting when the service's Main() method is called - so I can see if the service starts up at all

Seems easy, but wut - no logfile created!

The help at Apache FAQ: Why doesn't the logging in my service work? is fine, but maybe I just skipped over it - it took me a while to figure out that the problem of log4net not showing any results (meaning: writing out a logfile) was related to the windows service not being able to find my application.config file (cause the service was called from a different location than my output dir).

The Apache FAQ suggests using AppDomain.BaseDirectory which unfortunately fails when I want to initialize the logger in the Services Main() method due to Main being static. Copying the app.config to lets say c: and using